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Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP

Distinguished Professor

I’m passionate about improving the lives of those with severe mental illness and preventing suicide—a major public health issue.

Institution

UNC School of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

School

School of Medicine

Expertise

Psychiatric genomics, clinical psychiatry, data science

Department

Department of Genetics

Department of Psychiatry

Professional Bio

Patrick Sullivan is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a founder and the lead principal investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium as well as a Swedish national complex trait consortium and its extension to Denmark and Norway (focusing on psychiatric disorders). His labs investigate the molecular genetics of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (including post-partum depression), and eating disorders. He has an outstanding track record of training post-docs and in advancing them to faculty positions and independent R01 funding. Dr Sullivan has 433 total publications including 375 papers (peer-reviewed: published, in press, or submitted) and 58 other contributions (reviews, editorials, comments, invited manuscripts, or chapters). Google Scholar h-index 114. In the past 10 years, essentially all of his empirical papers have had trainees as co-authors.
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